Tulips with Care
Buy tulips to feed the hungry in Gaza
Potted tulips stand ready for a fundraising event to feed people in Gaza. Alex Awad and Randy Speck spent several months planting and growing about … Continue reading
Seira Kitagawa
Author: Seira Kitagawa
Jell-O-Jell-O fun!
Bring your Jell-O and just enjoy the creative fun
37 years ago, feminist performance art group Radar Angels came up with the Jell-O Art Show, where people create things and make different shapes with … Continue reading
Another Buch Showdown
Longtime commissioner Heather Buch faces latest business-backed opponent
Some of Lane County’s conservative business owners dearly want to fire Lane County Commissioner Heather Buch. And, just as keenly, many labor groups want to … Continue reading
Singing the Lived Experiences
Eugene Gay Men’s Chorus is to host an annual concert, titled Legacies.
Eugene Gay Men’s Chorus is a fairly new group, formed in May 2018 in response to the need in the community to come together. With … Continue reading
Job Loss to Adventure
Long-serving English teacher navigating life after language school’s closure
It was 2:30 am and Robin Rogers could not sleep. She had been receiving messages from over 50 of her former international students who heard … Continue reading
Cashing In
Loveall far ahead of VanGordon in money scramble for commissioner seat
In 2022, novice politician David Loveall, his campaign funded by logging and lumber-mill businessmen, pulled off a remarkable upset. He narrowly ousted Joe Berney, the … Continue reading
Full Person, Fuller story
Local author spotlights the bright lives of people with Down syndrome
Years ago, Melissa Hart took her brother Mark to a bar on Halloween day in Eugene. They were drinking beer and Mark was dressed as … Continue reading
Comedy of Care Giving
Brian Trapp publishes a novel to address the lives of people with disability with humor
Brian Trapp grew up with his twin brother Danny, who had a disability. Growing up, Danny would remind Brian that he was six minutes older. … Continue reading
Hot Springs Through a Cultural Lens
The way to relax fully with your clothes fully off, or not
“I want to get into a hot tub filled with warm water,” Satoshi Furukawa, Japanese surgeon and astronaut, said in an interview right after his … Continue reading
Remember and Pass On
Community members gathered in Eugene and Corvallis as it marks 80 years after the atomic bomb in Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9
Participants dance ‘bon odori,’ a Japanese summer festival dance in a circle. Roughly 100 community members gathered at Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration at Peace Pavilion in Alton … Continue reading